Comics Read 06/4- 10/2023
Over this period of time I read Vagrant Queen a Planet Called Doom by Magdalene Visaggio, art by Jason Smith, colors by Harry Saxon, and letters by Zack Saam & Andworld Design. Came out at the same time as the short lived television series. I can’t say that the tv series was firing on all cylinders, but I can say that I wish it was renewed. It was fun, kooky and I really want there to be non- Star Wars and Star Trek space opera shows on television.
But as for the comic, I enjoyed it. There was something of time jump between the first volume and this so it didn’t really matter that it’s been years since I read it and I barely remember it. If the first volume (and the television show) could at sometime feel pro-monarchy by being so revolution-skeptical, this is the antidote. I’d plot is kickstarted by someone kidnapping the title Vagrant Queen, Elida, trying to reinstate her for their own purposes. The cult that the kidnapper leads to empower a new monarchy is funny sad. I won’t reveal who the
In my post about the first volume I said something about the art reminding me of Howard Chaykin’s American Flagg! I would not say that bout this volume. The panels are exciting, but bigger and no where near as busy as it would take for me to make that comparison. Also it has a pretty warm color pallet, even in the cold of space. There is a wild cliffhanger and I hope that it is revisited sometime soon.
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Kari: Lord Honey…. Is that an aristocrat from the medieval period?
Universe: No. That’s a saying in the south.
Kari: What’s it mean?
Universe: it means that his food tastes so good that you will want to slap everyone in the face a lot.
Kari: That sounds a bit violent.
Universe: It’s a figure of speech.
Kari: what shape?
Universe: oblong.
Kari: Got it. I like him. He has a nice fach.
Universe: For all of us, “non Italians” what’s that mean?
Kari: Face.
Universe: Got it.
Kari: So his food is so good that it will cause riots in the streets and mass hysteria all over the globe?
Universe: He’s hoping, yes.
Kari: ok. Cool.
Universe: He’s a home baker, Kari. You ready to get your booty in gear and grab the granny by her pearls and open the can of whoopie pie on this adventure in baking?
Kari: when you put it that way, no. But I would be willing to give it a go, because the way my Ma teaches me to bake is the “5 minute” way.
Universe: What’s that?
Kari: Well, it’s “…let’s stand by the oven and check the thing you’re baking every five minutes til it’s done.” And, to me there’s a few issues with that. 1. I like to sit. 2. Sometimes you can’t see the side down to know if the freaking thing is done or not, and 3. Too many check ups. I mean, I don’t even go to the doctor that often, ok? I don’t get that many check ups! And here I am checking and checking and 45 minutes later that’s 22.1 checks on the thing I’m baking and it’s like, I feel like I have better things to do. For example, I like sit and ruminate and complain but not about my lack of baking skills. Not peek through an extremely opaque oven glass with the light on where everything looks brown anyway.
Universe: how often do you clean your oven?
Kari: not very.
Universe: Then maybe you should invest in his book.
Kari: it’s on my Christmas list.
Universe: Good plan. On a separate note, are you ok with opening presents early?
Kari: It depends.
Universe: on what?
Kari: if it’s timely then it’s necessary. Like if you give me a delicious panettone I’d want to eat it right away otherwise it goes stale. If it’s a fruit cake I’ll get to it in about 6 years…
Universe: Yes, no, not a fruitcake.
Kari: Good, because I’m trying to eat keto esque.
Universe: A panettone isn’t keto esque.
Kari: Oh I know! It’s one of those desserts I have to try regardless. Too many panettones, no fitting in my pantaloons.
Universe: yes.
Kari: Ok, well, if this guy’s cookbook isn’t from the Middle Ages I think I’d like to try the recipes, because I don’t think I’d like the hygienic practices of baking in the Middle Ages. I’d rather not die of dysentery, as a lot of tshirts say now a days oddly enough.
Universe: Yes, Jason bakes from the heart, not any other way.
Kari: Well that’s a relief, although with his washed hands would be even more hygienic… 😉💦👏
Universe: Yes. It would.
Stephen Hawking: Please excuse my friend Kari, as she has an interpretation that is part literalist, and part silly.
Kari: Stephen, I adore you, but you’re an odd choice for a button on this scene…
Stephen: I was the only one left in this conversation. Everyone that heard that Jason baked with his heart, fled. I, myself, am not interested in trying bakery.
Kari: oh no….. 🙈🤷♀️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Scene.
Appendices-
Universe: we’re not telling her that her gift is her better mood from having written about a nice person.
Kari: I already opened that gift! And I liked it better than a monkey likes a banana cream pie on a blazing hot southern Kentucky day if he visits from his home town in the Southern most part of the Amazon Rain Forest!
Scene scene. 👏💝
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black women in horror 🖤
aaliyah as queen akasha | queen of the damned (2002)
angela bassett as marie laveau | american horror story coven (2013)
bianca lawson as kendra young | buffy the vampire slayer (1997)
brandy as karla wilson | i still know what you did last summer (1998)
betty gabriel as georgina | get out (2017)
jada pinkett smith as maureen evans | scream 2 (1997)
keke palmer as emerald | nope (2022)
kelly rowland as kia waterson | freddy vs. jason (2003)
lupita nyong'o as red | us (2019)
rachel true as rochelle | the craft (1996)
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